Stuff Pack gameplay feature vote results!

Laundry is the winning group of gameplay features that we'll create for this upcoming Stuff Pack, after capturing the most votes from this community! In fact, when we examined the outcome across the different regions that voted, the results were almost entirely aligned. Nearly everyone voted for the options in the following order...

Laundry

Off the Grid

Food Preserves

Carbon Conscious

The only exception to this result came from players in Russia, where Food Preserves swapped places with Off the Grid by a slim margin.

With these results in hand, we have a clear path forward for this pack. In the coming weeks our Stuff Pack designer will get to work writing full designs for Washers, Dryers, Clotheslines, Wash Tubs, and Hampers. I'm looking forward to sharing those full designs with you, so that we can collaborate on the little details which are so important to creating a fun - and full - Sims experience.

You also have two more votes to look forward to, now with concrete dates on when they will occur. The Pack Icon Vote will start on September 6th, followed by the Pack Title Vote starting September 13th, where we will select the final name for this Stuff Pack.

In the meantime, watch for more in-depth looks into game development right here on this forum. In the coming weeks I'll be sharing more art, showing off the hairstyles that will come with this pack, discussing the process we follow internally to get from the initial brainstorm to the feature groups you voted on, and more!

Edit: To help clarify the edit to this post... This message originally mentioned Ironing Boards, and mistakenly excluded Hampers. I've edited the original post to better represent what's coming in this pack. Our first priority is to deliver the features that were mentioned in the Feature Vote survey. While we're interested in including Ironing Boards, it remains to be seen if they'll fit in the pack.

So DeservedCriticism was right on which of these would win.. again. So we will never ever get the others options, even the shadow of them? =/
But ok, congrats for who wanted laundry to be in this pack, I'm enjoying participate here anyway, thanks for let us vote.

So. There it is. Congratulations Laundry! I have to say that when I went to cast my vote for the gameplay feature, I had no intention of voting for laundry (as much as I'd like for it to be in the game). Initially, I was Off the Grid all the way. But, after re-reading each description, and imagining it as it relates to gameplay, I could only really choose Laundry.

I think Laundry is a great idea for a Stuff Pack. HOWEVER, I would absolutely love to see the other gameplay features make it to a Game Pack, as you could do a TON of stuff with Off the Grid and Food Preserves (toss in Carbon Conscious). In fact, a stuff pack would not be enough for Off the Grid/Food Preserves. SimGuruGraham, any chance of Off the Grid/Food Preserves making it to a Game Pack?

Thanks for the amazing opportunity to help bring this stuff pack to life!

I bet the vote was a bit of a wash, I'm worried that laundry will be too dry of a feature... Hopefully this won't deter(gent) me from buying the SP in the end. Maybe once we iron out a few of the last details it'll become a bit more exciting.

Wow, that would've been my third choice especially since washing machines/dryers are the opposite of Eco and go against the theme voted for. Please don't scrap the Eco Off grid choice. I picked canning and I hope it makes it in, but the off grid seemed really nice and both looked like great gameplay where laundry seems boring.

I do hope you make a laundry basket that looks like the other items that goes with the pack and maybe throw in Broomhilda. I do love the line and washpail that is coming with it though and many of the items that won along with a couple of the clothing items.

And with that we now have another boring stuff pack.This was cool and congrats to those who were so desperate to get laundry.(I don't understand,what on earth is so wonderful about the world's most boring chore).Oh well hopefully Off The Grid comes in the next stuff pack instead of just being thrown in the garbage.(seriously what is so special about laundry?)

Well, Laundry was my 3rd choice and I hate to see Food Preserves and Off The Grid placed in the trash heap. I sure hope they do something with them. But to all those who wanted Laundry..., congratulations! I'm sure we'll all find ways to incorporate the chore of clean clothing into our game and have a lot of fun doing it!

This is honestly so disappointing. Laundry should've been in a Parenthood like pack, not an eco friendly one. It kind of feels like the people who genuinely wanted Eco living were given the shorter end of the stick when adding laundry to this survey. I'm willing to bet that Maxis added laundry in to this specific pack so that players got invested and so they had an excuse to have you pay for it instead of them spending time making it for free, like they did with toddlers, pools, and the dish washer. I'm also disappointed that Off the Grid will most likely never be a returning feature, given that it would take a similar earth friendly or survival theme to fit in. I would love to congratulate those who wanted laundry, but there are honestly quite a handful of players that were being very rude during this entire thing, and I think I'm honestly more upset with them than I am with the outcome. I'm sad that I spent a good while on these surveys voting for things for an eco pack. Now I'm too invested in the other results to just turn my head at it. I really want those male pants.

Origin ID: graple2001
I build things and sometimes share them. I'm not hogging, I'm just slow. I've recently wiped my gallery, so there might not be stuff up for a while.

Before the vote I thought "I'll get it no matter what, even if laundry wins"
But now that I think about it, I don't want to encourage EA pulling this nonsense again when it should have been put in the Parenthood pack or another pack instead of shafting new features for it. So while I've bought every pack so far just for the sake of having them, I'll skip this one on principle and hope the others are cooler. If anything else I can hope its one of the lowest selling packs in the series.

The Sims 4 exists to make sure The Sims 5 will be mind blowing in contrast.

[quote="somethingstellar;c-15860524"][quote="gummybear0724;c-15860516"]*sigh* Not sure if I'm even going to by this pack anymore.[/quote]

Before the vote I thought "I'll get it no matter what, even if laundry wins"
But now that I think about it, I don't want to encourage EA pulling this nonsense again when it should have been put in the Parenthood pack or another pack instead of shafting new features for it. So while I've bought every pack so far just for the sake of having them, I'll skip this one on principle and hope the others are cooler.[/quote]

That's what I thought too, but now I am definitely thinking about it. They use a hyped up gameplay feature amongst a bunch of features that had almost no current demand. Like I have stated once, I'm sure they did exactly this knowing players would pick it, giving them an excuse to make you pay for it instead of giving it out for free.

Origin ID: graple2001
I build things and sometimes share them. I'm not hogging, I'm just slow. I've recently wiped my gallery, so there might not be stuff up for a while.